I will tell you what happened today. Maya loves my stamps. Every time she comes to visit, she picks out a few. Then she spends quite a bit of time pouring over the stamp pads and coordinating the colors. She easily found the stamp cleaner and the wet-wipes. Next she …
This Christmas I made a bunch of Toasty Warm Bean Bags. I was motivated to do so by the fact that our trusty bean bag has been used so much that it has started to smell like it is burning. There is nothing like a bean bag in the microwave …
Oh the fun I had finding the Fashionistas for this Memory/Matching Game. It has been suggested that to grow old gracefully in today’s enlightened world you have to throw all convention and good taste to the wind and layer it on. While I don’t ascribe to that point of view …
We were in the middle of a rather long winter drive. We were doing what we love to do. Exploring. Our timing, through no fault of our own, was perfect. Tom said “look” and I looked. Preparing to turn out of the church onto the main road was a beautiful, …
Fifteen Years Ago My first really nice camera was a Canon 35 mm. It was a beautiful camera and required actual film. If you don’t know what film is you may ask your parents because they will remember. * I was very careful about the number of photographs I took …
Not everything I find in a thrift store is a treasure. Most things are just interesting things that someone else has grown tired of looking at and I have found to be just the thing for me to look at until I am tired of looking at the thing and …
In the early summer, my yard flowers are pink, purple and white. Now and then there is a yellow and an occasional red. As the summer progresses, the white daisies fade the Baby’s Breath goes dry and the hardy, fall-colored flowers come into their own. It is wonderful to walk …
Family Gathering 2019 We love hammocks. We have three, as an afterthought I remembered how many times I had seen the children in them. Many, Many, times. Sometimes a child was reading and sometimes a child was sleeping. Now and then a child was hiding. We have had hammocks for …
Family Gathering 2019 Little kids like to crash. This hill, on the side of our home, is steep and long. Even big kids like to ride the small vehicles down the hill and purposely crash at the bottom. Of course, the bottom of the hill is covered with soft, summer …
Family Gathering 2019 This little afterthought has to do with the playroom. I think that the playroom is more for my satisfaction than for the satisfaction of my grandchildren. Could that be true? Everything has a place and most of the toys and books and art have been thrifted. That …
